X-Men vs. Street Fighter
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X-Men vs. Street Fighter (known as XSF to Street Fighter fans) is an arcade game released by Capcom in 1996 and is the first game in the Marvel vs. Capcom series of fighting games. It was the first game to blend a tag team style of combat with the well-known Street Fighter gameplay, as well as incorporating elements from Capcom's previous fighting games in the Marvel Comics franchise, and Marvel Super Heroes. It was also ported to the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation home consoles.
Due to insufficient beta testing, every character in this game has at least one infinite combo; ironically, it is nevertheless praised by some Street Fighter fans as being the most "fun" entry of the four Marvel vs. Capcom games for precisely this reason.
Characters
X-Men side
- Cyclops
- Wolverine
- Storm
- Rogue
- Gambit
- Magneto
- Juggernaut
- Sabretooth
- Apocalypse is the final boss of the game. After defeating him, the character that defeated Apocalypse is forced to fight his or her teammate. (The game will not accept new challengers at this time, even in the arcade version). If you can defeat your CPU-controlled teammate, you will get an ending, usually a character-oriented joke.
Street Fighter side
- Ryu
- Ken
- Chun-Li
- Charlie (Nash in the Japanese version)
- Dhalsim
- Zangief
- M. Bison (Vega in the Japanese version)
- Cammy
- Akuma (Gouki in the Japanese version)
Home versions
X-Men vs. Street Fighter was ported to the Sega Saturn and the Sony PlayStation in 1996. For the Saturn version, the game required a 4 MB RAM cart (which was packed with the game). This Sega Saturn version has 100% of the arcade's animation and is one of the most accurate versions ever made in a home console. It was released in Japan only.
For the PlayStation version, because of the PS1's poor sprite capabilities,as well as low system RAM, this version had to make sacrifices for the game to work on the PS1. Notable absences include several frames of animation being cut(choppy graphics), the lack of in-game speed and, the game's key feature, no "true" tag-team gameplay (though a limited version of this appears via a cheat).This is the worst version of the game, and doesn´t worth to be played.
Trivia
- While Gouki is technically a hidden character, the method for discovering him is so easy that most fans don't consider him hidden and account him with the standard selectable characters.
- In addition to her regular costume, Chun-Li has an alternate outfit, from her appearance in the Street Fighter Alpha games.
- This game marks the first appearance of the Shadoloo version of Cammy.
External links
- [Shoryuken.com (the online center of competitive Street Fighter)]
- [Evolution Fighting Game Championships (largest annual fighting game tournament in the Western Hemisphere)]
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